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Lamb Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 372 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Lamb Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the lamb into small pieces and place in a bowl.

  2. Slice the tomato thinly and layer it over the lamb.

  3. Chop the capers and sprinkle them on top.

  4. Pour the remoulade dressing over the salad.

  5. Tear the lettuces into pieces and add them on top.

  6. Garnish with hard-boiled eggs, sliced.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lettuce + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Tomato + caperstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Lamb + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Lamb + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, lettuce, capers, egg):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, lettuce, capers, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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